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When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas
Ezekiel was an exile. Born in the kingdom of Judah, he survived the siege of Jerusalem, in 597 B.C.E., but afterward was banished with his…
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The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
In 1857, Sam stumbled into the job that would shape his identity. Aboard a southbound steamboat—part of some half-baked scheme involving…
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The Many Guises of Robert Frost
Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin…
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The (Sketch) Show of Shows: Author Susan Morrison on Lorne Michaels and 50 Years of ‘Saturday Night Live’
At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the dry-humored Canadian…
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An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
Back in my footloose twenties, I lived for a year in Costa Rica, where I worked at a school in the central highlands and worked even…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Land Power, by Michael Albertus (Basic). In the past few centuries, land has changed hands on major scales: from nobles to commoners…
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The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
Along Interstate 71, in a flat stretch of Ohio, an otherwise modest billboard proclaims that “hell is real.” The type, set against a black…
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The Frustrated Promise of the Rape Kit
In 1975, a rape victims’ advocate named Linda Reinshagen shared a story with a reporter from the Chicago Tribune. A man on the South Side…
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The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic
No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In…
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Huationg, Ley Choon shares take off as robust order books revive construction stocks
Shares of some construction companies surged last week on various announcements and a projected bright outlook. Hock Lian Seng was up 12.9…
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The Best Books We Read This Week
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link
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Should You Question Everything?
Every few months, out of curiosity, I red-pill myself. Usually, I start with YouTube. The algorithm is extraordinarily responsive: give a…
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Washington’s Hostess with the Mostes’
Washington still cherishes a belief that it was long a place of bipartisan comity, of after-hours socializing during which fences were…
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The Best Five Books I Read in 2024 - Southern Curls & Pearls
I haven’t done a book review in soooo long, but, trust me, I’ve still been reading up a storm! I actually bought my first Kindle this year…
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Hegseth Earned $6 Million From TV, Books and Paid Speaking Fees
Pete Hegseth, the military veteran who is President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for defense secretary, took in nearly $6 million as a Fox…
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Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?
On November 28, 1924, Raymond A. Dart, a professor at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, was getting ready to attend a…
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Yukio Mishima’s Death Cult
I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a long…
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He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
Gottfried Leibniz was not the first philosopher to think that we live in the best of all possible worlds. He may have been the unluckiest,…
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What Is "Stuff Your Kindle" Day? Book lovers can stock up during event
What's New Thursday and Friday mark the "Stuff Your Kindle" Days during which e-book readers can stock up on hundreds of books for…
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Does Morality Do Us Any Good?
Sauer, who cautions that his chronological arrangements “shouldn’t be taken too literally,” terms the results of his multidisciplinary…
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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
Like countless other people around the globe, I stream music, and like more than six hundred million of them I mainly use Spotify.…
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Sure, “Paradise Lost” Is Radical, but Did You Know It Was Sexy?
A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork. Source link
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The New Republic’s Books of the Year
The New Republic has practiced a confrontational, sometimes combative, style of criticism since its early issues—its clarion call Rebecca…
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Paul Valéry Would Prefer Not To
One way of being a modernist writer is to pay attention to the most saliently modern objects and experiences. So it is that Proust…